Further reading
The Harms of Transvaginal Mesh – University of Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
The Implant Files – a global investigation into how health authorities across the globe have failed to protect millions of patients from poorly tested implants, in the first-ever global examination of the medical device industry.
International Medical Device Regulators Forum
International regulators should “take all appropriate measures to encourage patients,
doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to report suspected
adverse reactions to the national competent authority” The MHRA in the UK. To increase Adverse Event reporting. See P51 of the report below.
FDA’s ongoing activities on urogynecological surgical mesh
The FDA warns that Mesh implanting hooks can cause injuries for up to 25% of patients – Mesh Medical Device Newsdesk
Sling The Mesh successfully campaigned for the foundations of a Sunshine style payments system, like they have in America, where anyone can find out which doctors have accepted funding from industry using the CMS Open Payments Database search function. The Sunshine system is yet to be enacted in the UK but the foundations are laid for it within the 2022 Health and Social Care Act in Section 92
